Quote for the Day! - Archive

Thursday, Nov 30, 2017

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

Plato
Greek philosopher & Aristotle's teacher
(428BC - 348BC)

Wednesday, Nov 29, 2017

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

Socrates
Greek philosopher & Plato's teacher
(470BC - 399BC)

Tuesday, Nov 28, 2017

“History cannot be detached from God and then run smoothly on purely material lines. If man's heart is not good, then nothing else can turn out good, either. And the goodness of the human heart can ultimately come only from the One who is goodness, who is the Good itself.”

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God
(1927 - present)

Monday, Nov 27, 2017

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
(1847 - 1922)

Wednesday, Nov 22, 2017

“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”

Aristotle
Greek philosopher and scientist
(384BC - 322BC)

Tuesday, Nov 21, 2017

“Many modern (so-called) reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.”

William J.H. Boetcker
American religious leader and influential public speaker.
(1873 - 1962)

Friday, Nov 17, 2017

“The gift of life, God's special gift, is no less beautiful when it is accompanied by illness or weakness, hunger or poverty, mental or physical handicaps, loneliness or old age.”

Terence Cardinal Cooke
Priest, Bishop & Cardinal - Archbishop of New York & Military Vicar for the United States
(1921 - 1983)

Thursday, Nov 16, 2017

“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.”

Harry S. Truman
33rd President of the United States
(1884 - 1972)

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017

“Every one of us is called by the Lord: the important thing is to know how to answer his call.”

Saint John XXIII
Bishop of Rome & Servant of the Servants of God
(1881 - 1963)

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2017

“Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.”

Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
(1936 - 2016)

Monday, Nov 13, 2017

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

Walt Disney
American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.
(1901 - 1966)

Friday, Nov 10, 2017

“Earth's crammed with heaven. And every common bush afire with God.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet of the Victorian era.
(1806 - 1861)

Thursday, Nov 09, 2017

“Love is not concerned with a person's accomplishments, it is a response to a person's being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.”

Dietrich von Hildebrand
Catholic philosopher and theologian.
(1889 - 1977)

Wednesday, Nov 08, 2017

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Psalm 34:18
Holy Bible
New International Version

Tuesday, Nov 07, 2017

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

Aldous Leonard Huxley
English writer, novelist, philosopher.
(1894 - 1963)

Monday, Nov 06, 2017

“In your life, when difficulty, even catastrophe occurs, remember hope. Not only the hope of God's help, but the hope of eternal life.”

Father Benedict Groeschel CFR
Franciscan friar, priest, author and activist.
(1933 - 2014)

Friday, Nov 03, 2017

“God is constantly trying to engage each person in ways that are not always clean and tidy. God's grace often appears in the messiness of life and in the suffering, that we endure.”

Mary Flannery O'Connor
American writer and essayist.
(1925 - 1964)

Thursday, Nov 02, 2017

“Darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, FRSL
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor
(1892 - 1973)

Wednesday, Nov 01, 2017

“Pain is never permanent.”

St. Teresa of Avila
Spanish Mystic, Carmelite Nun & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1515 - 1582)